Lynne Cohen

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More information on the body of work:

For more than 50 years, Lynne Cohen photographed living rooms, offices, laboratories, waiting rooms, and classrooms. These private and public spaces are places of encounter and social interaction. In Cohen’s work, they remain a backdrop, as the artist has always photographed them without people. Instead, the design and furnishings become the central motif of her images, which subtly convey the bizarre nature of what she finds. The power of Lynne Cohen’s images lies in their clear, almost austere compositions, which emphasise the cool yet appealing effect of the spaces. For the most part, she gives the viewer no information about where they were taken, even though some of the subjects have been given generic names. Cohen is more interested in the interaction between aesthetics and interpersonal behaviour.

 

Biographical information

1944

born in Racine, Wisconsin, USA

1964-1965

studies art at the University College London, Greatbritain

1974-2005

teaches photography at the University of Ottawa, Canada

2014

dies in Montreal, Kanada